California Court of Appeal

Because each of three counties in which defendant committed offenses qualified as "the county in which the person was convicted of the offense for which he or she was committed to the jurisdiction of the Department of Corrections" under the Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA), each county had jurisdiction over SVPA proceedings.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/05/2002
• Published 11/06/2002

Judges

•  BAMATTRE-MANOUKIAN, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  William R. Weigel, Biggam, Christensen & Minsloff, Santa Cruz, for Petitioner Michael Thomas Cheek., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, Moona Nandi, Deputy Attorney General, for Real Party In Interest:  The People.


• For Appellees:
  
• No appearance by Respondent.